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Empathy and Affect: The Direction of a Conversation Between Ham and Rora (Still)
Video
2010
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Artist Statement
Rebecca Ora's work explores the range of human emotion located between humor and discomfort. Poking ethical nerves through exploring vexing situations, her videos bring to the fore questions of spectatorship and voyeurism; power and exploitation; and marginality and belonging, all the while implicating both the artist and the audience in a quagmire of problems.
In Lillian, the artist responds to the regular filming of a mentally ill woman who frequents a San Francisco retail space by the employees she has befriended. This documentary video ultimately dissolves into fantastic and spectacular gestures through which characters attempt to negotiate the webs of dysfunction through which they move. YouTube-type music videos, cinematic montage sequences, masquerade and fortune-telling combine to form a multiplicity of actual and ersatz narratives that together underscore the gaps that exist in the ethically complex events and behaviors.
Contact
ora.rebecca@gmail.com
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